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bgray on Oct 13, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: our switch from Lisp to Python

If lack of libraries was the reason for the switch, why not Clojure?

copper on Oct 13, 2009 [–]

Clojure dates from 2007 according to wikipedia, and reddit did the switch way before that (this post was in 2005.)

Makes me feel positively ancient.

bgray on Oct 13, 2009 | [–]

Ahhh, that makes sense. Thanks!

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